Reviews
A review here is about one product, not one tin. It reads the maker's data sheet, the Amazon listings the product is sold under, and the colour records it matches, and gives the product one score against five criteria. That score is the one every other page on the site shows for it. Nothing was tested on a bench, and each review says so where it gives the score.
A review does not say which paint to buy for a job. The articles do that: each ranks a handful of these products for one job, such as a manifold, or a Ford engine in its factory colour. Where a pick has a review, the article links to it.
- Eastwood Ceramic Engine Paint review
Eastwood's brush-or-spray ceramic enamel, rated 4/5: 650°F, about 343°C, the top of the engine enamel class, from a US quart, with Eastwood's own warning that it is not for manifolds.
- Frost P800 engine enamel review
Frost's own 500 ml brushing enamels, rated 4/5: 170°C, RAL numbers on the tin, BMC Green, MG Maroon and Ford colours on the OEM colour records, and no data sheet behind the figures.
- Hycote Engine Enamel review
Hycote's engine enamel aerosol, rated 3/5: self-priming, cheap and everywhere, with a gloss black its own data sheet rates at 140°C while retail listings print 300°C. What the sheet says.
- Jenolite Heat Resistant Paint review
Jenolite's 500 ml matt black heat-resistant tin, rated 3/5: 650°C by brush, roller or gun, 15 m² per litre, no primer for most work, and no cure schedule.
- Jenolite VHT Aluminium review
Jenolite's 400 ml aluminium heat-resistant aerosol, rated 3/5: 650°C, a cure that completes once the part reaches 260°C in service, no primer instruction, and no drying or coverage figures published.
- POR-15 Engine Enamel review
POR-15's brush-on engine enamel, rated 4/5: about 80% solids and self-levelling, a pint for an engine, 24 colours including MG Maroon, rated to 300°F, and four to six days before the engine runs.
- POR-15 High Temp review
POR-15's brush-on manifold coating, rated 4/5: 1,200°F, about 650°C, straight onto prepared metal with no primer allowed, and a cure that runs in a different order from the aerosols.
- U-POL Raptor Flameproof review
U-POL's exhaust and manifold aerosol, rated 5/5: 1,000°C intermittent, the only can on Amazon UK whose sheet lists stainless steel as a surface it goes straight onto, and a cure of one hour at 150°C.
- VHT Engine Enamel review
VHT's engine enamel aerosol, rated 5/5: the 288°C intermittent figure, a cure of 93°C for 20 minutes or the running engine, the three-can system, and which of its colours the OEM records name.
- VHT FlameProof review
VHT's header and manifold coating, rated 5/5: the 1,093°C figure and its qualifier, the three-stage bake, the primer it wants, and the stainless warning on its own sheet.